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cn coin 1590

Connected to Type

CN Type 6047 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. middle 3. c.-220/219 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1009_V17 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath, earrings and necklace.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1009_R26 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥ // ΕΠΙ ΣΦΟΔΡΙΑ; mon. ΣΙ
Design
Poseidon seated right on rock, naked to waist, holding aplustre in outstretched right hand and trident in left arm over his shoulder; to right, monogram. Ground line.
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Persons

Magistrate: Sphodrias 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Phoenician
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
27 mm
Weight
13.86 g
Owner

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Coin and Medal Collection, Glasgow, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Sammlung Hunter

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1009, Hunter H B3

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 135, nr. 1009, pl. 44, pic. 1009  ❐

Macdonald, Catalogue of Greek coins in the Hunterian collection 1, Glasgow 1899 p. 393, nr. 1  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 135, nr. 1004-1005.1007-1013, pl. 44-45 ❐

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cn coin 1590, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1590 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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